The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-24
Religious Notes.

Religious Notes.
The Loveland camp meeting will begin July
Socrates: The fewer our wants the nearer we
resemble the gods.
Fuller: Measure not men by Sundays. with
out regarding what they do al! the week after.
The New York Chinese mission has between
1900 and 5000 Celestials in its Sunday schools
Louisville Courier-Journal: 1t is to be re-
GREETED that at the very time of year when hell
sermons would be most effective the preacher is
apt to be off for his vacation.
Temperance people circulated hand bills in
England, during the Queens jubilee celebration.
saying: Remember. if you drink the Queens
health you damage your own"
Longfellow: What discord should we bring
to the universe if our PRAYERS we're all answered.!
Then should govern the world, and not God.
And do you think we should govern 1t betters 3
Canon Farrar: No soul can preserve the bloom
and delicacy Of its existence without lonely mus
ings and silent prayer, and the greatness of this
necessity is in proportion to the greatness of the
soul.
Morality without religion is only kind of
dead reckoning-an endeavor to find our place
a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we
have run but without any observation of the
heavenly bodies.
When the Queen of Madagascar shut up the
saloons in her kndom, and the ex-saloon-keep
ers asked for compensation. she replied, Com
pensate those you have wronged. and L will pay
the balance"
Bishop Bowman, who graduated at Dickinson
College. fifty years ago, in the first class under
the celebrated DR.. j. ?. Durbin's presidency, de-
mencement
The Calcutta Indian Witness says: 'That
temperance sentiment is the increase in
India. the following statement of correspond
ent may indicate A weli-known professional
died from the effects of strong drink. aud the
funeral procession consisted of one person"
The National Reform Association will hold a
convention at Ocean Grove, N. j., July 25. The
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bath question, the Bible in the public schools.
the Christian standard of marriage and divorce,
the prohibition Of the liquor traffic and kindred
subjects.
the home training of their children, and assume
that the Sunday school will furnish them all the
Christian culture they need. make a great mis-
take. and one that may prove fatal The very
efficiency of the Sunday school in these days
may be temptation to parents to neglect the
religious education of their families. and hence
this word of caution and warning.
What we all sin
could believe painful opening out
For paths tor ampler virtue
Arthur Hugh Clough
Fuller: Thou must content thyself to see the
world SO imperfect as it is. Thou wilt never
have any quiet if thou vexest thyself. because
thou canst not bring mankind to that exact
notion of things and rule of life which thou
hast tormed In thy own mind.
How much the heart may bear and yet not break
How much tho flesh may suffer and not die!
question much if any pain ache
OF soul or body brings end moro nigh.
Death chooses his tne till that is worn,
All evils may be borne.
Behold. live through all things famine thirst,
Bereavement pain: all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inhicts its worst
On soul and body but cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired and faint and worm
10, all things be borne.
-Gooa Words.
but open my eyes-and perfection, no more and no
less,
God
In star the stone, in the flesh in the soul and
the clod.
And thus looking within and around me,
with that stoop of the soul which in bending up
raises it tool
The submission mans nothing perfect to Gods all
complete.
AS by each obeisance in spirit, climb to his
feet.
Browning